Efficacy: flowers clear away heat and toxic materials, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; Root detoxification and detumescence.
Indications: Flowers are used for treating upper respiratory tract infection, whooping cough, bronchitis, eye keratitis, pharyngitis, stomatitis and toothache; Externally used to treat parotitis, mastitis and carbuncle. Fresh grass is used externally to treat mastitis, innominate swelling and furuncle.
Functional indications of marigold
Calming liver and clearing heat, expelling wind and resolving phlegm. Treat dizziness, wind-fire eye pain, infantile convulsion, cold and cough, whooping cough, breast abscess and mumps.
① Collection of Common Folk Herbs: expelling wind and reducing fire, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
② Annals of Medicine in Nanning: calming the liver and clearing away heat. Treat dizziness and infantile convulsion.
③ List of Guangxi Medicinal Plants: Enriching blood, dredging channels, removing blood stasis and promoting regeneration.
(4) Treating wind-fire eye pain, dim eyes, cold and cough. Uterine prolapse after fumigation and washing * * * Sichuan * * *
Administration and dosage: decoction,1~ 3 RMB. External use: decocted in water and fumigated.
Attached prescription
① Treatment of whooping cough: Honeycomb Chrysanthemum 15 flowers. Boiled water mixed with brown sugar.
② Treatment of tracheitis: one or two fresh honeycombs, water in Chaoyang San Qian, and two money in Aster. Decoct with water.
③ Treatment of mumps and mastitis: grind Honeycomb, Paris polyphylla and Lonicera japonica into powder, mix well with acid and vinegar, and apply externally to the affected part.
4 treatment of toothache and eye pain: honeycomb chrysanthemum five money. Decoct with water. * * * Selected "Kunming Common Folk Herbs" * * *
Excerpt from * Dictionary
Common vice prescription of marigold
1, for pertussis: Honeycomb Chrysanthemum 15 flowers. Boiled water mixed with brown sugar.
2. Treatment of tracheitis: one or two fresh honeycombs, water rising in San Qian, and two money in Aster. Decoct with water.
3, treatment of parotitis, mastitis: Honeycomb chrysanthemum, Paris polyphylla, honeysuckle * * *, mixed with acid and vinegar and externally applied to the affected area.
4, cure toothache, eye pain: honeycomb chrysanthemum five money, water decoction.
The role of marigold
1, Ornamental value: Marigold is often used in flower bed scenery for viewing because of its large flowers and long flowering period.
2. Extraction of yellow pigment: Marigold is a kind of panicum miliaceum, which is an ideal raw material for extracting pure natural yellow pigment. Natural yellow pigment is an excellent antioxidant, which is widely used in food industry and chemical industry, such as food, feed, medicine, etc. It plays an important role in improving the color of products and is an indispensable additive in industrial and agricultural production.